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Archive for Fri, 26 Jul 2013

After the Almedalen week of Swedish politics, the news pages slip into a coma... or do they? Sweden's ministers instead lure journos into their lair by offering them morning coffee every week. The Local's Steffen Daniel Meyer takes us on a tour to see what's happening when nothing is happening.

The story of an American man who awoke from a coma able to communicate only in Swedish made headlines this month and brought attention to the re-enactment movement which will gather in Visby in August for the 30th annual Medieval Week festival, Peter Vinthagen Simpson reports.

Gothenburg has been rated as the third most beautiful and most underrated city in Europe by a travel website, but local tourist officials have been left with a bitter taste after learning which city was number one.